Mattias Desmet: 'The Psychology of Totalitarianism'. Understanding the mass acceptance of the Corona fascism.
There are issues in applying the pseudo science of psychology to anything, but the book contains enough factual and relevant information to make it important to understand the Corona Fascism.
In 2021 psychologist Mattias Desmet wrote a book ascribing the Corona Plandemic Fascism and mass compliance from a supposedly ‘educated’ population, to ‘mass formation’ hypnosis. Many of us have seen Desmet, a professor at the University of Ghent in Belgium, interviewed and applaud his courage to call out the obvious about the Corona totalitarianism, which is usually a death sentence in quackademia.
There is, however, good and bad about this book, as given below. In general, the book is a worthwhile purchase and read, and should probably be read with Hannah Arendt’s work on Totalitarianism (The Origins of Totalitarianism), given that some of Desmet’s most important themes are derived from Arendt’s 1950 study.
There are issues however with this book, which tends to layer arcane psychological theory and often incorrect academic postulations on top of common-sense observations about the Corona fascism. Yes mass psychology and compliance was fundamental in the Corona plandemic, but exogenous and cultural-metaphysical forces, along with mass-media (psyops, not psychology) and coercion (lockdowns, jabs, diapers), do explain much of the supine mass compliance, as does the veneration of State power and ‘expert’ testimony.
First let’s dispense with the belief that psychology itself is of great value.
Psychology is in my opinion, part of the problem with our not-so-modern-age. It is a massive industry which begets various and limitless sub-industries, some as inane as ‘evolutionary psychology’, or ‘gender transitioning’, quackeries looking for reality as they collect revenue streams and in the case of many sub-industries including gender-mental-illness, commissions from the criminal pharma industry. Psychology is mostly non-science, and much of it a fraud. Desmet confirms in his book that some 85% of psychological studies and ‘research’ is fraudulent. Freud taught his disciples well.
Psychology is, however, a massive industry. Globally, psychology and its discontents comprise a $500 billion plus market, annually. Convincing everyone that they suffer from some childhood mental aberration, or that their behaviour is ‘dysfunctional’ is a path to profits. It is mostly quackery.
Common Sense vs Arcana
There are few ‘insights’ granted by psychology that common sense and self-awareness will not reveal. The only real value might be to force the person to confront their inner demons, whether the evil is alcohol addiction, porn addiction, gambling, violence, or a mental disorder rendering normal functioning problematic. In this regard probably the most useful aspect of professional psychology might be group work and forcing people to be honest and share stories within a larger team and to seek colleague support and empathy.
The non-science of pop-psychology is far worse than ‘professional psychology’ of course and in general has nothing to say about the human condition that is relevant or real. The Book of Wisdom, Job, the Psalms, and Ecclesiastes are far more relevant if you want to understand yourself and humanity and learn how to live a good life. The worst incantation of pop-gibberish psychology is the execrable Oprah Winfrey, the child-trafficker, and her ilk. They are the modern Freudian rent-seekers, enriching themselves from the support of the gullible and stupid.
Freud was another quack
Freud was simply a word-smithing quack, and most of the praised elite from this non-science have long been dismissed and rubbished. Freud and the industry he created were profiteers, propounding their theories using fraudulent data, arcane language and pseudo-scientific babble paraded in long sentences and incomprehensible paragraphs, classified as ‘science’. If you want to understand the brain, a SPECT (single proton emission computerised tomography) scan will do more to uncover the brain’s secrets than paying £100 per hour talking to a BF Skinner devotee. Neurology was unknown to Freud and Skinner of course and makes a mockery of their expostulations. Excoriating psychology is not the main point here and would take a book to properly elaborate the discipline’s weaknesses, but suffice it to say, a psychologist’s view has little to do with ‘science’ and usually distorts reality.
Second, mass hypnosis is not mass formation
Building on the above comment, Desmet’s work dresses up what should be known about ‘mass formation’ totalitarianism from Nazi and Communist history, in the suits and dresses of pseudo-intellectual phraseology and construction. Fundamentally and incorrectly, Desmet believes that mass hypnosis is the basis of ‘mass formation’. Mass compliance is really ‘mass formation’ and has nothing to do with being hypnotised.
The creation of general mass compliance during the Corona fascism had more to do with the alliance of governments, the police, criminal corporations including the pharma industry, fake news, and tech platforms, and their use of force, terror and propaganda; intersecting and aligning with the puerile and ignorant acceptance by the masses of authority, ‘experts’ and ‘science’. Corona was a centralised and coordinated military-grade event. Importantly the cultural and metaphysical philosophies of the Enlightenment and the ‘modern age’, were fundamental to mass compliance - a theme that Desmet elaborates on very well (see below).
Corporatism
In simple terms totalitarianism, and its bastard offspring of Fascism and Communism, rely on corporatism, violence and coercion, using a thin and ugly veneer of fake ‘science’ as propaganda to convince and cajole. This is what constituted the Corona fascism - the age old totalitarian impulse of the Corporate State allied with coercion, deceit and propaganda, and using ‘science’ as a cover and a casus belli to convince and command. Mass psychology is thus formed and it may or may not be ‘hypnotic’ depending on your definition. It certainly is a violent and fascistic program of terror.
We know that the Corona plandemic was table-boarded in Event 201, during October 2019 and that the main focus was on media manipulation and information control – not on healthcare. This was just one of many such exercises in the years leading up to the plandemic, an event guaranteed by ‘Dr’ Fauci in 2017 to occur before the next US election in 2020. The use of physical and digital force and the control of the narrative was central to the Corona fascism, which was emblematic of $cientism and Corporatism.
Third, Desmet devalues his work, with his anti-Catholic rants
Desmet seems to know little about Christianity or religion. He ascribes fervent faith to a mental mass-hypnosis if not illness. He inserts this comparison to offer up analogies from the past to what transpired with Corona. In this historical comparison, using religion, he utterly fails. The Church was hardly totalitarian divided as it was by heretical sects, internal disputes (including more than 1 Pope during long periods), and a cleavage between the Eastern and Western churches. Corruption, fraud, and violence were a part of this history, but so too was saving civilisation and creating the masterpieces of art, architecture, cathedrals, universities, literature, schools, hospitals, and sundry inventions too numerous to mention including modern mathematics and modern science.
Totalitarianisms don’t last 2000 years and generate such genius and creativity. The mass of laity during the medieval period were as varied and as disagreeable, intelligent, stupid, educated, inventive, passive, drunk, talented, lazy, rebellious, argumentative, disgruntled, disbelieving, uncaring and misbehaving as any group of laity found today. The rise of Protestantism and opposition to the Church hierarchy and its demands and at times corruption, had very deep roots with a centuries long pre-history. Hypnosis played no role in Church history (Peter Brown of Princeton and his analysis of Christianity’s accession to dominance are great reference works in this regard).
Having stated the obvious there is value to the book, in particular the references to Hannah Arendt and the templates provided by the twin Statist theologies or Communal gospels of Nazism and Communism, and the analysis by Desmet using these templates in his study of the Corona Fascism (more below).
What Desmet gets right
Desmet rightly emphasises that ‘mass formation’ originates from the deracination of society, an Enlightenment initiative condemned by Desmet. But this observation is open to anyone who understands civilisation, culture, legacy, and heritage. It is not the domain of psychology which has ‘proven’ this ‘insight’. It is simply common sense. The Divine Right and Religion of $cience replacing and effacing traditional religion, culture, heritage and the immaterial - all of this emanates from the poorly named ‘Enlightenment’ which sought to overthrow the entirety of Catholic and Christian history and declare itself and its era one of reason and progress, with the ‘only’ answer to existence (reason).
The Endarkenment?
Desmet correctly identifies that ‘Enlightenment’ quackery is the key issue with our modern world and the rise of mass compliance, addiction to state power, individual atomisation, a loss of true faith and the inevitable and endless illnesses, including the mental perversion of gender fluidity. When analysed the Enlightenment is a stream of irrational theology and confused inarticulate demands and theories.
The ‘Enlightenment’ as the apex of reason is simply propaganda. The program is based on mechanical dialecticism, ‘materialism’, ‘positivism’, ‘long ages of stability’, and a blind religious and fervid belief in ‘reason’ to explain everything. But what is that? What is reason? Is the idea of reason uber-alles even reasonable? The 19th century threw up all sorts of secular-materialist unreasonable nonsense, from Jenner, Pasteur and Darwin, to Comte, Marx and Freud. All of these 19th century ‘theories’ can be located in the twin communal-Totalitarianisms, Nazism and Communism and in the case of Jenner and Pasteur, in the modern corporatism of the government-drug industry alliance. There is no reason in any of it, nor truth, nor science, nor much of reality.
Illness and Drugs
Concomitant with this destruction of traditional religion, reality, culture, genders and real science, is the endless drug injections demanded by modern $cience. In our age, only drugs confer health. This is unreasonable and untrue. Only a ‘doctor’, pharma or an ‘expert’ knows about health. People have outsourced the hard work of their mental and physical health to the corporate agenda of government and the drug industry - for both convenience and security. The mass demands magic pills to save them, or abolish pain and discomfort. Hence they are willing to submit themselves to the dictates of the Corona-Vaxx Church and its holy water, which according to 200 years of propaganda, is the only salvation and surety from death and sin.
As Desmet cogently details, the use of drugs has led to limitless misery and death. Psychotropic drugs, opioid addictions and the endless array of ‘normal’ medication must derange the body, the mind and induce neurotoxicity into organs and the nervous system. Vaccines, the ultimate quackery and non-science, have for 200 years caused more deaths and injuries, than the purported diseases they seek to eliminate. Yet the masses still believe that drugs and synthetic interventions save them. This indeed is more than just hypnosis, it illustrates the supine, puerile nature of the mass and their lack of critical thinking. It reinforces the ‘addiction’ by the mass to easy solutions, and a willingness to outsource their lives to unaccountable, and often, very corrupt ‘experts’ and institutions.
Atomised
Desmet, “The Enlightenment tradition had promised people autonomy and freedom, but, in a way, it brought people greater (feelings of) dependence and powerlessness than ever before…the experience of loss of control…the atomised subject.”
The above quote is a good insight and very relevant to the Corona fascism. Desmet to his great credit, identifies this plethora of modern mental illness to the atomisation, loneliness, lack of self-value and esteem, felt by a large minority, or maybe a majority, of the population. This is probably the most important theme of the work. He is right in that much of this is psychological, and psychological stress will generate mental and physical maladies. The massive ‘surge’ in the ‘modern era’, in mental and physical illness has been largely generated by the ‘Enlightenment’ theology that reason is not only uber alles, but alles. Nothing outside of reason is the state-corporate motto. Human interaction, emotions, the immaterial, God, our family, the land, the soil, our history mean nothing.
As Desmet observes, to remedy their fear and anxiety, the atomised subject will desire to become ‘virtuous’ and be part of the ‘group’ and join the ‘mass’ to fight the enemies as declared by the scientocracy and leadership. The atomised person has no support network, nor any allies with which to oppose the demands of those in power who control the narrative.
Hence the desire of every fascism to destroy the Churches, the family and other centres of opposition who provide solace, comfort, an immaterial explanation of life, a sense of belonging and being important and part of a non-state group. The state wants an atomised society, since that is so much easier to control and manage. Gender mental illness, the assault on men, on families, on faith - all of this is to destroy opposition to the state.
Metaphysics matters
Desmet: “…situate the undercurrent of totalitarianism: a naïve belief that a flawless, humanoid being and a utopian society can be produced from scientific knowledge. The Nazi idea of creating a purebred superman based on eugenics and social Darwinism, and the Stalinist ideal of a proletarian society based on historical-materialism are prototypical examples, as is the current rise of transhumanism.”
World-views and metaphysics shape your reason. Mathematically, the unit of measurement can lead to different conclusions about the same problem. If your world view is perverted and distorted, so too is your reason and as Desmet illustrates, if your unit of measurement is contrived or changed, so too are your conclusions. And so here we are, in a not-so-modern-world of perversion and totalitarian distortion – all based on ‘reason’ most of it unreasonable and suffused with failed 19th century secular theologies and abstractions. The world and the human are much more than the rational universe, which is never defined nor identified, and whose religiosity leads ineluctably to the one and only ‘science’ to rule them all and Desmet’s mass hypnosis and Totalitarianism.
The mass-’hypnosis’ around data and numbers
It is fair to say that most people are afraid of data or numbers. Or, they are easily confused or impressed by streams of data and ‘studies’. Desmet identifies this as part of the univocal Enlightenment ‘science’ that maims and distorts reality and discourse.
Desmet: “What was surprising is that, during the coronavirus crisis, people refused to acknowledge that profit motives played a role and had an impact on the data. The entire healthcare sector was suddenly graced with quasi-sanctity…..About 95 percent of registered COVID-19 deaths showed one or more underlying conditions…on average 83 years old in Belgium…”
The above was clear and obvious to any of us who analysed the data and compared the death rates of 2020-22 to past years and decades. There was no pandemic. In fact the stabs have killed some 5x more people than the virus ever did, and the Corona death rate was 0.3% or the same as the flu.
Yet the avalanche of ‘science’ and its ‘cases’, ‘positive tests’ based on fake PCR testing, and ‘models of forecast death rates’ overwhelmeded the common sense of the masses neutering their critical thinking skills. It is fair to say that the worship of the State and its ‘veracity’, the elite, the ‘leadership’, the ‘science’, healthcare and ‘experts’ has effectively destroyed most people’s critical thinking skills. This is the basis of ‘mass formation’ which can be called ‘mass compliance to authority and violence’. Statism in a word.
Metaphysics and Technocratic governance
‘Science’ is now of course ‘$cientism’, a philosophical framework for control, power and profit. Hobbes’ ultimate Leviathan. From the 17th century onwards, ‘science’ became a religion, the only source of truth and veracity. Today, ‘the science’ is owned by government. For the masses the State is the tribunal of truth and the only divine interpretor of data.
The obvious reality is that real science is corrupted and destroyed by the State and its corporate allies ($cientism). Reason and faith are replaced by technocratic statist governance and appeals to following just one ‘science’ and to build only one ‘future’. Desmet coins the term ‘regulitis’ to emphasise the plethora of unending, confusing, contradictory and inane rules and parameters which now govern our existence and which are used to build mass compliance.
Desmet: “There are several signs that a new kind of (technocratic) totalitarianism is on the rise: an exponential increase in the number of intrusive actions by security agencies….the general advance of surveillance society…censorship….loss of support for basic democratic principles…experimental vaccination program and QR code…led…by dull bureaucrats and technocrats.”
Regulitis and endless governance by the illimitable layers of national and transnational governance is accelerating every year.
Mass formation summarised
Desmet: “…mass formation is largely the result of individuals being gripped by a common narrative that unites them in a heroic battle against an object of anxiety.”
The above is a pithy and accurate summary of mass formation. It leads to the one ring to rule them all. Desmet’s book is in the main a very good analysis of what happened during the Corona plandemic, with the caveats listed above.
Summary: Was Corona a test pilot?
Desmet’s ‘battle’ by the mass against the ‘enemy’ can only result in success, if there is one leader, one command centre, one direction, one ‘truth’, one ‘information set’, one battle plan, one response. This means centralised techno-fascist governance, propaganda, fascistic rules and ‘regulitis’, a loss of freedom, free speech and individuality, and pace the WEF’s ‘velocity’ of international events, a World Government founded upon a technocratic $cientism as a necessary model to defeat the ‘common international enemies’.
Exogenously, this entails endless fear mongering over external enemies including the climate, pathogens, the Russians, the Iranians and the Chinese. It means endless war against ‘viruses’ or ‘Oceania’.
Endogenously all the events assaulting our civilisation, the Gender mental illness, open borders, anti-White racism, Islamophilia, Christophobia, climate change, hatred of hydro-carbon energy and eco-fascism, are attempts to deconstruct civilisation and will also need ‘mass formation’, mass-compliance to resolve.
The main goal of $cientism, is as Desmet writes, the eradication of reason, the atomisation of society and the deracination of everything - finishing off the ‘Enlightenment’ as it were by destroying what is left of Western Civilisation.
Corona was likely a test pilot. The powers that be will return, to build the pilot project back better. Will Desmet’s mass formation be repeated?